The Edge

This book is a look inside autism and mental illness. It is the story of a young girl growing up with a father who had a mental illness. She is now mother to a child with autism. Not only does he have autism but he was struck by a car and regressed into his autism and stopped speaking and became very violent. This book shows how this mum has coped and continues to cope with her child’s disability but most of all it shows the capacity of a mother’s love for her child.